UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

Began reading this “Utmost” fully intending to finish it before attempting to write an accompanying poem; got half-way
and knew where I was going.  Hope You Will Enjoy, Jeff
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NOT A BIT OF IT!

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite sure that God will never deal with us as He has to deal with other people. “God must deal with other people in a very stern way, but of course He knows that my prejudices are all right.” We have to learn – “Not a bit of it!” Instead of God being on the side of our prejudices, He is deliberately wiping them out. It is part of our moral education to have our prejudices run straight across by His providence, and to watch how He does it. God pays no respect to anything we bring to Him. There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender.
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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

Look up no more
And refuse to see
The life you are living
Is all about Me

Bow down no more
And refuse to obey
The choices you are making
Are directing you My way

Stand up no more
And refuse to be proud
Only the strength you are given
Is what will raise you off the ground

Fall down no more
And refuse to be new
The discernment of your steps
Proves you are walking in My truth
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J. E. POLLOCK
Oct. 23, 2009
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When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new
creation in us, and there will come a time when there is not a bit of the old order left, the old solemnity goes, the old attitude to things goes, and “all things are of God.” How are we going to get the life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to pokes, the love that is not provoked, that thinketh no evil, that is always
kind? The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left; but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer want God’s blessings, but only want Himself. Have we come to the place where God can withdraw His blessings and it does not affect our trust in Him? When once we see God at work, we will never bother our heads about things that happen, because we are actu-
ally trusting in our Father in Heaven Whom the world cannot see.

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